Field diary·DII:2d·1930

Soli, Cholades, and MersinakiAlfred Westholm

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Handwritten in Swedish. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 11 of field diary DII:2d (Soli, Cholades, and Mersinaki), handwritten in Swedish. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, DII:2d, Public domain (CC0).

Unnumbered pageScan 11 of 66

Continued from scan 10

… itself just opposite the western gates of the old city wall on the other side of the river! The location can hardly be described more felicitously. The first statue fragments found are:

Stone dove l 40 cm3
Head of dog h 16 cm4
” ” Head of h 14 cm5
Fragment of an Isis head6

All these pieces and a number of ἄχρηστα κομμάτια lie in one and the same room bounded by walls on the north, west and south. The east wall has not yet been encountered, but the fragments continue in that direction, and the excavation is therefore extended that way. Among numbered fragments are

Male torso with l. leg 42 cm7
” ” ” ” Male torso with l. 62 cm8

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain